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Baby feeding

Introducing solids in your baby's diet is important for helping your baby learn to eat, giving them experiences of new tastes and textures from a range of foods, developing their teeth and jaws, and building other skills that they'll need later for language development.

Breastfeeding requires you to give a lot of energy and nutrients to your little one. If your diet is inadequate, it can put you at risk of deficiencies.
Here are the 6 key nutrients you need to pay particular interest to while breastfeeding.

The mechanics of breastfeeding are one part to master, however this is how herbal tea can help with breastfeeding to ensure adequate milk ﬂow, minimising tummy upsets and delivering essential nutrition.

If you are suffering with painful breastfeeding problems, it’s likely you have many questions. What follows are some answers to these important questions to help you figure out if you are on the right track or whether you should be seeking further assistance.

Whether you have a new baby or are on to your second (or third or fourth!), learning how to breastfeed can present some challenges. To help you sort the good from the not-so-good, Babiz have collated their top five things you need to know about breastfeeding.

Many parents have a number of questions when it comes to stopping breastfeeding. Tommee Tippee have a helpful guide that can point you in the right direction - including three different stages of weaning your baby.

The introduction of solid foods is a time of excitement and experimentation for babies and their parents. Learning the mechanics of taking food from a spoon, chewing and transferring it from the front of the tongue to the back of the mouth and then swallowing takes time and lots of practice.

Dream feeding is when a baby feeds during their sleep. Dream feeds can be done equally well with babies who are breast or bottle fed. The process of dream feeding generally means that a baby who is already asleep is picked up gently from their cot, placed in their parent’s arms and fed.

A guide to what is normal is breastfeeding and the differences in "normal" that mums and babies can experience as well as some useful tips for when their could be a problem and when to seek assistance.

With all the research and information surrounding the benefits of breastfeeding, mothers who are bottle feeding their baby can feel a little left out. And for those who would have preferred to breastfeed but for whatever reason weren’t able to, being constantly reminded of the “superior” aspects of breastfeeding can be difficult to cope with.

As every parent knows, babies do not come with a manual as every child is different. When one baby is ready to move onto solids can be very different from another baby so you must forget what your friends are doing with their little ones & start to move to solid foods when you think the time is right for your child.

When it comes to expressing breast milk, no matter what thinking, planning, dreaming and scheming women invest into predicting the need to do this and how their life as a mother generally will be, nothing can really prepare them for the truth.